sufficiently confutes his own
270, 271
says, it matters not how
kings come by their power, 274
makes an usurper have right
to govern,
ibid.
First-born, has no natural right, by
being so, to dominion, 301
Force, when without authority, to
be opposed with force, 443, 444
promises extorted by it, not
binding,
451
Free, men are naturally so, 213, 339
Freedom, (natural) men not de-
prived of, without their own con-
sent,
420
how men subject themselves
to any government, 409, 414
nicate life, and sometimes wish GAMESTERS injurious to the
public welfare,
28, 29
God speaks in scripture so as to be
understood,
245, 246
Gold, altering its value by a law
in proportion to silver, tends to
impoverish a nation, 98, &c.
- not the measure of commerce
as silver is,
151
why it should, notwithstand-
ing this, be coined,
ibid.
the proportion between it and
silver,
193
Government cannot naturally de-
scend by hereditary right, 275,
&c.
how it differs from pro-
perty,
283
that which gives right to
it, in the present possessor, must
give it to the successor, 284, &c.
it is absolutely necessary
to know who has the right to
it,
275
Government,
James I. (king of England) his LABOUR, much more owing
to it than to nature, 361-3
Labour
Landholders, want of trade a great
loss to them,
25, 54, 56
Laws (human) must not be. con-
trary to the law of nature or
scripture,
419, note
Legislative power, how it is bound-
ed,
423
Liberty, how men are by nature in
the state of it,
339
wherein it consists, 351
restraint by the law of na-
341
how far it is given up, by
becoming members of a com-
monwealth,
396, &c.
Lineal succession, not restored in
the kings of Israel,
ture consistent with it,
337
- none observed among the
rulers of Israel till David's time,
334
Lowndes (Mr.) propounded to have
our money reduced to one-fifth
less value,
153
his reasons for lessening the
value of money, answered, ibid.
want of it at last falls upon
73-75
how the value of it may be
82-86
said to be raised,
it cannot be really raised, un-
less in proportion to its plenty or
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